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Originally a US R&B chart hit for the King Cole Trio in June 1946.

Written by Willie Dixon and originally recorded by Muddy Waters in April 1954. The nine cover songs on the album are: I Just Wanna Make Love To You The covers the Stones recorded for their UK debut album were largely blues and R&B songs originally released on Chess Records, the label that gave the band their biggest inspiration, but they also included homages to the Motown and Stax labels as well. For the Stones have their fingers on the pulse of the basic premise of ‘pop’ music success – that its public buys sound, and the sound is what they give you with this, their first album a raw, exciting, basic approach to rhythm and blues.” The cover versions “A way of life that has captured the imagination of the nation’s teenagers, and made them one of the most sought after groups in Beatdom. “The Rolling Stones are more than just a group – they are a way of life,” he wrote in the album’s sleevenotes. He would have probably removed the Decca logo if the label had let him. His self-belief – and belief in the band – pushed him into creating a cover that has no name or identity of the group, just a photograph. Manager Andrew Loog Oldham’s behind-the-scenes creativity reached a peak with The Rolling Stones’ debut album. The Rolling Stones topped the charts for 12 weeks in the UK from early May and remained on the charts for a year. “Under those primitive conditions it was easy to make the kind of sound we got on our first album and the early singles, but hard to make a much better one,” said Richards.

The songs were recorded on a two-track stereo in a room insulated with egg cartons, and there wasn’t enough money for re-takes. The album also included a few guest musicians: Gene Pitney played piano on one track (“Little By Little,” which also featured its co-writer Phil Spector on maracas) and Ian Stewart appeared on five tracks, contributing piano and organ to the sessions. There are few overdubs and the album comes as close as you can get to the live sound of the band at that time – all the songs having been honed to perfection during a year of non-stop touring by Jagger, Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts.